Dean's new book of magic illumination
Contributors: Dean & Son
Publisher: Dean & Son, Ludgate Hill
Published: 1865
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Specimens; Toy and movable books
Other titles: New book of magic illumination
Notes: Cover title.

Date of publication inferred from inscription in LC copy.

Hand-painted wood engravings signed: F. Staples.

Each leaf is backed with translucent paper, painted to correspond with the cut-outs in the illustration.  When held up to the light, the illustrations are illuminated.

Illustrations include a skating party, the Thames at night, a hot air balloon, a factory, a church with stained-glass windows, and a shipwreck.  Four lines of verse accompany each illustration.

Publisher's advertisements on blue endpapers at front and back and p. [4] of cover, with the following headings: Little plays for little people, new and amusing books for the young, handsomely-bound books for youth, books for young ladies, and, list of Dean & Son's untearable cloth books.

LC copy inscribed: Ann Eliza Jane Sweeney, presented to her by her father, Christmas 1865, Wheeling, Va.